Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim as contemporaries of Solomon   Part Two (b): Zimri-Lim's Palace and the four rivers?     “The upper register lies behind the lower, in a primitive form of perspective. The lower has two goddesses standing, holding vases, from which streams of water flow. As these blend and fall, they become four streams (one original stream becomes two and then four).   Professor Nick Wyatt       In the next extract from professor Wyatt’s article,   A Royal Garden: The Ideology of Eden   https://www.academia.edu/27601631/A_Royal_Garden_The_Ideology_of_Eden   we find further possible Genesis-Edenic symbolism. Typically, though, the Mari temple and its wall depictions, conventionally dated here to the C19th BC, are considered to pre-date any text of the Book of Genesis. In this series, on the other hand, we have re-dated Zimri-Lim and his palace to almost a millennium l...

 Massive Challenge to Standard Geography of Jerusalem – Temple Part Four: Dr. Ernest L. Martin on the  Lithostrotos     “Later, in the time of the Piacensa Pilgrim from Italy … this “Praetorium” had a singular feature that was honored by the Christians. It was an “oblong Rock” on which Jesus stood when he was judged by Pilate”. Ernest Martin   Lithostrotos (Greek) or Gabbatha (Hebrew)   According to Abarim Publications: http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Gabbatha.html#.XIxXQOQ8R9A “The name Gabbatha occurs only once in the Bible. It’s the name of the location where  Pontius   Pilate  had his judgment seat, also known as Lithostrotos, meaning stone-strewn (John 19:13). Pilate tried to reason with the  Jews  with the objective to let  Jesus  go, but was left little choice when they began to evoke  Caesar’s  sovereignty. It was from Gabbatha that Pilate delivered Jesus ...

by Damien F. Mackey     Archaeologists such as Israel Finkelstein of Tel Aviv University and Bill Dever of the University of Arizona were interviewed on actual sites where they could point directly to stratigraphical levels where they thought the evidences for Joshua, the Conquest, or king Solomon, ought to be; but where there was in fact a complete lack of such relevant archaeological data. Whilst doing this they were often, as I believe, ‘standing upon’, so to speak, the very levels in which the data can be found.     Chapter Five (Volume One, beginning on p. 119) of my university thesis:   A Revised History of the Era of King Hezekiah of Judah and its Background   AMAIC_Final_Thesis_2009.pdf   commences with this section on the chronology of King Hezekiah (here modified and with some comments added):   Restoring the Hezekian Chronology   W...